Haxe Roundup 555

Welcome to the latest edition of the Haxe Roundup. Haxe is a high level, strictly typed programming language and cross-compiler.

Community Updates

News and Articles

• Congratulations to Will Blanton on winning the #DiscRoomGameJam with DISC WHEEL! 🥇🏆
• LDtk: The Level Designer Toolkit article and video by Game From Scratch.
• PogoGirl Devlog #8: Shader Journey by Andrej from Ohsat Games.
• The Moonshine IDE version 3.0.0 is the first release that includes Feathers UI views written in Haxe.
• Double Kick Heroes are offering the chance to win a Delta Headset, thanks to the ASUS ROG team and a Double Kick Heroes Steam Key! 🤘
• Pixel Perfect 2D Water Shader tutorial used in Go! Go! PogoGirl by Andrej from Ohsat Games.

Videos & Music

• Merrak has posted Rogue of Vallas Devlog #4: Persistence and Style bonuses video, a game made in Stencyl.
• How to format FlxText and change fonts globally in Haxeflixel video by Richard Oliver Bray.
• Add a video related to Haxe.

Upcoming Events & Talks

• Add an upcoming event about Haxe.

Jobs, Bounties

• Add an available job involving Haxe.

Looking for work

• Javid Jafari is looking for a job.
• Joshua Granick is looking for paid work.
• Justin Mills is looking for a fulltime job. Justin is an ex Flash/AIR/Away3D/Papervision3D expert who’s been using Haxe for 10 years, a good lateral thinker & loves visual stuff, maths and capable at fine art.
• Andreas Drewke is looking for a part time job.
• Kevin Leung is wondering if any Haxe Australian companies are hiring?
• Torcado is looking for a publisher/indie fund to help him fund the rest of the development for Heck Deck. He would love to know any recommendations you may have.

Job listings

• Shiro Games are still looking for a Senior Gameplay Programmer to join their team of passionate developers in Bordeaux.
• Bloognoo is looking for a Haxe developer to help them save live venues.
• The team behind Forge of Empires at InnoGames is looking for a Haxe developer, feel free to contact Dan Korostelev in case of any questions! More info can be found at the company’s website.

Bounties

• Squidly has opened up a bounties page for HaxeFlixel features.
• Lars Doucet’s list of various open bounties.

Product Releases & Announcements

• Darksburg 1.0.5 has been released with full controller support, curios updates, a whole new boss fight and more!
• Double Turn has just released version 1.0, now available from Steam! Also check out the trailer!
• Its official, Northgard, by Shiro Games, is coming to mobile!
• Steel Seraph has been updated to 1.9.0 for Windows, Linux and Mac.
• Dicey Dungeons v1.10 out now! Featuring the new Catalan translation, plus lots of little bug fixes and optimisations! 🎲
• CrossCode is now out for Xbox Series X! Witness pixel art in glorious sharp 4k and fluid 120fps! Powered by Kha!

Code Examples

• Have an example you want to add? Consider contributing to the code.haxe.org cookbook.

Previews & Demos

Open Source

• Sébastien Bénard has posted a sneak peak of the upcoming world editor in the LDtk 0.6.0 release.
• Ammer, the Unified FFI for Haxe native extensions, has merged in Lua CI.
• LDtk 0.5.0-beta and LDtk 0.5.2-beta have been released.
• snekky 0.7.0 has been released, which adds support for REPL, ranges, basic string escaping, regexes and more!
• haxe-swt-playground git - A repo for experimenting with haxe-swt.
• iso3166 git - ISO3166 Country Codes.
• hx-neutralino-lite git by Matthijs Kamstra. He had fun with NeutralinoJs and Haxe and now its time fix some bugs in his creative coding library.
• zerolib-openfl git - Some helper classes for OpenFL by Will Blanton.
• zsparticle git - Sparticle HAXE for Away3D project.
• smartfox-android git - Externs for smartfox Android.
• GmxGen git - Updates GameMaker extensions with function/macro definitions and documentation extracted from source files.
• similitude git - A web-based digital logic simulator.
• Foundry2D git - Data-oriented and data-driven 2D Game engine built on Kha with a built-in editor.
• Check out the latest open source Haxe projects over on GitHub.

Closed Source

• Vsio has posted a post mortem of Loop Heart, an LD47 game made with HaxeFlixel.
• The President of Space has made a new tileset for the obligatory lava level in Caverns of Ksantarus. Expect an assortment of burning floors, fireballs and flamethrowers! 🔥 An indie game made with HaxeFlixel.
• Miels is creating a game for the #GameOff2020 jam using HaxeFlixel.
• Benny Heller is working the night shift.
• Snappy Sloth are working on the game for GitHub Game Off game jam and using Heaps. Mat’ “Tipyx” PISTOL is streaming his daily work on the game over on twitch.
• Robert Alvarez started a new game where you step on tiles to change the active spell.
• Squidly has shared progress of a couple small enemies in Renaine.
• WIP platformer game which is being made with Kha by Xano from Kha discord server.
• Dracula 9000x by Joaquin Bello is a game being made with Kha. Most of the gameplay is done, need to add more art and add more effects. Here is the version with infinite jumps.
• The new logic node editor in Armory3D, via ArmoryBlender.

Some Library Releases

• inotify 2.0.1
• haxe-poco 1.0.2
• ldtk-haxe-api 0.5.1-rc.1
• deepnightLibs 1.0.53
• jsasync 1.2.1
• dragonbones 5.1.1
• mc2it_rte 1.0.1
• Check out the most recent library releases on HaxeLib.

People & Projects to support

• Pavel Alexandrov is primarily contributing to the Heaps engine and is the creator of format-tiled library.
• Ian Harrigan is working on primarily HaxeUI, as well as hxArduino & hxWebSockets.
• Kaelan Evans is working on HxDoom, a Haxe adaption of Doom.
• Richard Oliver Bray is teaching people the things he’s learnt, like React, Typescript and Haxe.
• Alexander Gordeyko is developing Pony, a Haxe open-cross-library.
• Andy Li is working around the Haxe ecosystem: CI, packaging, docs and learning materials.
• Kevin Leung is creating open source software libraries.
• Robert Konrad, the Kha author, is creating Programming Toolkits.
• Lubos & contributors are creating Armory, an open source 3D game engine in Blender.
• OpenFL is creating free open source software.
• HaxeUI is creating an open source user interface libraries.
• HaxeFlixel is creating an open source, cross platform 2D game engine.
• Slava Ra is creating improvements for FlashDevelop and HaxeDevelop.
• Mark Knol is working on Haxe and its documentation.
• Dan Korostelev is working on the Haxe compiler.
• Eric Bishton is creating the Haxe plugin for IntelliJ IDEA.
• Will Blanton is creating HaxeFlixel tutorials.
• Matthew Wallace is creating Haxe By Example tutorials.
• August Late is creating unique 2D lighting tech.

Updates from the Haxe core

Current Proposals & Discussions

• Add local static proposal.
• Allow enums to opt-out of publishing their constructors in the implicit global scope proposal.
• Add destructive assignments proposal.
• Add notation for native optional arguments proposal.
• Add Matcher: setting variables and guard as expression in a pattern proposal.
• Add Single pattern check proposal.
• Add Shorthand nullable-type syntax proposal.
• Add support for on site getters & setters proposal.
• Add support for Self access for abstracts proposal.
• [RFC] Xml Dsl’s discussion.
• Add support for default type parameters proposal.
• Add polymorphic this types proposal.
• Add Default values for enum parameters.
• Do you have an idea to improve Haxe? Consider creating a proposal.

Core Changes

18~ commits have been made to Haxe compiler in the last week.

• [js] -D analyzer-optimize can re-order API (extern) calls which can cause a mess issue.